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A Daughter of the Samurai by Etsu Inagaki Sugimoto; Karen Tei Yamashita (Introduction by); Yuki Obayashi (Introduction by)
Category: Biography | Series: Modern Library Torchbearers Ser.
A young Japanese woman leaves the only home she's ever known for married life in nineteenth-century Ohio in this delightful, charming memoir, a tribute to the struggles of the first generation of Japanese immigrants--with an introduction by Karen Tei Yamashita and Yuki Obayashi The youngest daughter ...Show more
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Modern Library Torchbearers Ser.
2020 deluxe edition of Harriet A. Jacob's 1861 autobiography
Lady Audley's Secret by Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Category: Classic | Series: Torchbearers Ser.
"Graceful and lovely Lady Audley may not be all that she seems in this Victorian-era equivalent of Gone Girl. A bestseller when it was first published, Lady Audley's Secret shocked readers because it dared to suggest that beneath a perfect surface, a woman might be willing to lie, con, and even kill to ...Show more
The Awakening by Kate Chopin
Category: Classics | Series: Torchbearers Ser.
"An exciting repackage of Kate Chopin's classic novel as part of the Modern Library's "Torchbearer" series, featuring a new introduction written by National Book Award finalist, Carmen Maria Machado. The Awakening shocked turn-of-the-century readers and reviewers with its treatment of sex and suicide. ...Show more
The Heads of Cerberus by Francis Stevens; Naomi Alderman (Introduction by)
Category: Fiction | Series: Torchbearers Ser.
"""Those who yearn for the Good Old Days are bound to like it.... Those who insist on the close reasoning and satirical wit of modern science fiction will find surprising amounts of both here; and if, like myself, you have a foot in both camps, you're sure to be delighted by this connoisseur's blend of ...Show more
The Voyage Out by Virginia Woolf; Elisa Gabbert (Introduction by)
Category: Fiction | Series: Modern Library Torchbearers Ser.
A young woman learns about life, and love found and lost, in this thought-provoking debut novel by one of the twentieth century's most brilliant and prolific writers--with an introduction by Elisa Gabbert, author of The Unreality of Memory "Absolutely unafraid . . . Here at last is a book which attains ...Show more
Villette by Charlotte Bronte
Category: Classics | Series: Modern Library Torchbearers Ser.
From the author of Jane Eyre, a strikingly modern story of a young woman starting over--with an introduction by Weike Wang, PEN/Hemingway Award-winning author of Chemistry "Villette! Villette! Have you read it?" exclaimed George Eliot when Charlotte Brontë's final novel appeared in 1853. "It is a still ...Show more
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